- Richard Chen posted underestimated product trends in 2023 as a part of annual tradition.
- Chen highlights ENS, MEV business model, and generative art as new trends for the incoming year.
- He says ENS has already shown success by overtaking OpenSeas for ENS names purchases.
The crypto-focused investment firm, 1Confirmation partner Richard Chen announced three product trends in 2023 in his recent blog. Chen releases an under-the-radar product trend list every year and in 2022, he featured vertical-specific NFT marketplaces, trust-minimized cross-chain bridges, and investment DAOs.
However, for 2023, Chen explores other NFT-based products including ENS. He shares that according to Dune, Ethereum Name Service acquired the highest number of unique holders compared to any other NFT project.
ENS was the 10th most-called smart contract on Ethereum in 2022, while launching their own 3 and 4-digit ENS names version of Picture for Proof (PFPs) titled 999 Club and 10k Club. Moreover, verticalized marketplace ENS Vision has overtaken OpenSea as the go-to destination to purchase ENS names.
With MEV business models for apps and wallets, Chen argues MEV has grown into an entire industry needing infrastructure to optimize milliseconds in execution speed. He also believes that compared ...
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